Harold Dow

I wanted my life back.

I wanted to be with my children.

I wanted to be with my grandchildren.

Why did she run?

She was scared.

Defense attorney Michael Amador says Margaret was forced to run by a police department that had rushed to judgment.

You're saying law enforcement in this case used tunnel vision?

Absolutely.

item, police say Ron's employees were the first to report him missing, not Margaret.

Since his employees were immediately concerned that he didn't show up for work, why wouldn't Margaret be concerned?

But Margaret says she did call police and was told to wait.

They had said that the majority of them always come home.

They had a policy that it was 48 hours to wait.

And Margaret didn't stop there.

I started calling everyone that I ever knew to see if anybody had heard from him or if anybody had heard him say anything.

Barbara Orcutt's Mountain Lodge was located next to property Ron Rudin owned.

I asked Barbara if she had seen Ron.

I said I also was worried that something might have happened to him over on the property.

You know, what kind of a wife, when her husband is missing under suspicious circumstances, remodels her entire master bedroom and turns it into an office?

There were so many reasons for that, too.